Thursday, October 18, 2012

Five Little Starfish - A Flannel Friday

This flannel board was inspired by Nicole over atNarrating Tales of Preschool Storytime and her Five Little Jellyfish rhyme. For my storytime about visiting magical places, the children and I went to the ocean to do the rhyme Five Little Starfish. The children loved doing this one, especially when we get to the starfish that takes a ride on a seahorse!

For a template, I simply found a starfish clip art to use. I made two extra just because I couldn't resist, which turned out to be a good thing because all of my regular storytime children who sit up front really wanted to help put them on the board and I had just enough for all of them! This made the reciting of the rhyme interesting at first, but then you realize... this is a perfect time to introduce some subtraction math skills! All I had to do was place the two extra ones in a corner and ask the children how many do we have left if we don't count the ones in the corner, and they got it! Awesome!

2 comments:

Greetings! I believe I used the clip art/printable that I found here [ http://www.stfrancesvbs.com/resources_marine.html ]. Just click on the starfish link and it will take you to it. If it doesn't work there it's providede here [ http://www.stfrancesvbs.com/dwnld_resources/m7.jpg ]

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